Jonathan Samuels (born 1972) is a British broadcaster and journalist. He co-anchored Sky News Sunrise between 2016 and 2018 and now anchors The News Hour on Friday, Saturday and Sunday as well as News at Ten during weekend periods. He can also be seen elsewhere across the schedule. Previously he held a range of senior correspondent posts for Sky News, the 24-hour television news service, including being based in Sydney from 2011 to 2014.[1]
Previously, Samuels was Chief Correspondent on Five News.[2] He also presented and reported for BBC Look East and BBC Spotlight and began his broadcasting career as a BBC trainee at BBC Radio Cornwall.[3]
A journalist for more than 20 years, Samuels has covered many major domestic and international stories, from natural disasters, to crime and politics. Jonathan was in Chicago when Obama won his first election, covered the missing miners in Chile, conflicts in the Middle East, protests in Hong Kong and Bangkok, tsunamis in Japan and Indonesia, bushfires in Australia, floods in Pakistan and Europe, terror attacks and royal tours.
For a number of months he was based in LA covering the Michael Jackson trial and also spent weeks following the search for missing plane MH370. He was in Rome when Italy became the first country outside China to go into Covid lockdown.
More recently he anchored hours of live coverage for the G7 summit, COP26, the fall of Kabul, the rise and fall of Boris Johnson, the Ukraine war, Platinum jubilee and deaths of Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth.
When not working Jonathan is a keen traveller, plane enthusiast and author – his first novel is out any decade now.
He lives in West London with his wife Laura Bundock, Sky's Royal Correspondent and two children.[4]
